kaaji
Maquiritari
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [kaːhi]
Noun
kaaji
- ayahuasca, the vine Banisteriopsis caapi
- ayahuasca, the hallucinogen prepared from this vine
References
- de Civrieux, Marc (1980), “kaahi”, in , David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
- Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 22, 58, 105, 226
- Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela, Santa Barbara: University of California, page 190